FLORIDA AG SEEKS EMERGENCY ORDER TO HALT OPENAI
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Florida's attorney general has requested an emergency court order to stop OpenAI from developing new language models. The move follows a summer lawsuit linking ChatGPT to a mass shooting incident.
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